Overview
Type: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Description: Binding is tight. Pages are clean and straight. No dust jacket. Cloth cover is faded and discolored on the spine. See pictures for more details. Book League of America Edition ca 1940. Rare edition.
Nana opens in 1867, the year of the World Fair, when Paris, thronged by a cosmopolitan elite, was the perfect target for Zola's scathing denunciation of hypocrisy and fin-de-siecle moral corruption. In this new translation, the fate of Nana—the Helen of Troy of the second Empire, and daughter of the laundress in L'Assommoir—is now rendered in racy, stylish English.